How's your Day? - September 2013

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Sounds like you've been having more than your share of the srotska lately. Rich gave you good advice. Myself I've been at the big L for a while..Buntu LTS, though not as long as him or some others here. I'm shopping for a new distro, as the latest Buntu LTS has given me the strotska. I think maybe I'm gonna go with Mint and that Sabayon looks interesting. Over the years, I've found Linux to be a practical and much more secure OS than any of the current commercial alternatives and once you get used to all the password permissions etc, I think you'll find it works quite well and has surprising compatibility. I especially like the peaceful lowkeyness of Linux and the way you don't keep getting all that market driven static like you do in the main stream commercial systems. I think they're also starting some mobile projects, though I'm not sure how that's progressing...

 

Android already runs off the linux kernel altho the gui is custom. And the Firefox/mozilla folks are (maybe already have) releasing their own mobile OS phones overseas. I think the Black Berry OS is also based off the linux kernel now too.

Mac OS/X runs on the BSD Kernel which is a UNIX descendant and therefore a cousin to linux.

 

Bookmarked! Thanx!

 

My pleasure. Glad I could help

 

OS/X is reliable. But Macs are too expensive for me. Alas. My son has just started his studies in audio-visual arts. I wish I could afford an Apple notebook for him since that's almost standard in the academy he visits. Some great audio editing programmes only run on OS/X, but he'll have to do with a Windows alternative (or use a Mac at the academy for those purposes).

 

^ agreed. Macs are just too expensive. Plus, you're locked in to Apple products only.

 

Just last week I installed Elementary OS, an Ubuntu variation, nicely done.
Clean look, foolproof, with a look a bit like MacOs.
Check it out!

 

I've been a mac-guy since....oh....1984 or so—before all the hipsters joined the Apple bandwagon.
Been in creative depts where both platforms were used (windows & mac), although over the years, the mac presence in the media depts grew extensively and the window-machines went to the finance depts.
My youngest is entering a digital arts college—a 3-year accelerated program using all state-of-the art equipment for 3d rendering & the like. The majority of the comps used are window-based, particularly for gaming design, rendering and illustration. Ironic as the macs have been the standard in a good part of the biz for years.

 

Just gotta get this out there...


ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!

 

Heh. Yeah, it might get below 90 by then. Although we *have* finally gotten some rain.

 

LOL. I lived in the Texas Panhandle a couple of years. It's amazing how different the weather can be across the state, it gets awful cold in the Panhandle in January. I much prefer Houston weather to the Panhandle and am even considering South Padre (Brownsville) as a possible retirement spot (although I've still got 10 years).

 

Now, don't rub it in. Some of us Texans are Aggie fans (not me though).

 

Yeah,I know, I work with and live amongst too many of them. They even out number the smell-s-poo and Arkansas fans.
But, unlike all the ones last year that did all their juvenile stunts and stuff last year, I'll just sit back and grin with class.
Just like I did last year

 

I went to my Bonsai Club picnic today. Lots of fun with very nice people. We also had a tree auction & I bought a nice maple.

 

The soap dish came off the wall in the kid's bathtub last night. Tried the quick fix of re-installing it with Liquid Nails, didn't work. Bought some thin-set and mortered it in, we'll see how it does. I should be able to caulk it this evening but I think I'll tell the kids not to use it for a couple of days. If I had to make a living as a handyman, I'd probably starve to death.

 

Brownsville is pretty sweet, but it gets more rain than us. I'm in Mission.

 

Ya..it's a smokin' town..

 

Just finished watching the Star Trek movie. I'm glad I rented it on Amazon Video instead of seeing it at the theater, it ewas mediocre. I did like Shrlock Holmes as Khan though, but th way they try to tie in storylines from the old series to the new movies is pretty lame.

 

I always liked that song, and couldn't remember who did it.